The Human Rights-Based Approach to Higher Education

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Kotzmann
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Higher Education Policy ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Cultural Rights ◽  
Higher Education Policies ◽  
Human Rights Based Approach

A human right to higher education was included in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), which came into force in 1976. Yet the world has changed significantly since it was drafted. State legislation and policies have generally followed a neo-liberal trajectory, shifting the perception of higher education from being a public good to being a commodity. This model has been criticised, particularly because it generally reinforces social inequality. At the same time, attaining higher education has become more important than ever. Higher education is a prerequisite for many jobs, and those who have attained higher education enjoy improved life circumstances. This book seeks to determine whether there is still a place for the human right to higher education in the current international context. In seeking to answer this question, this book compares and contrasts two general theoretical models that are used to frame higher education policy: the market-based approach and the human rights-based approach. In doing so, it seeks to contribute to an understanding of the likely effectiveness of market-based versus human rights-based approaches to higher education provision in terms of teaching and learning. This understanding should enable the development of more considered, sophisticated and ultimately successful higher education policies. This book contends that a human rights-based approach to higher education policy is more likely to enable the achievement of higher education purposes than a market-based approach. In reaching this conclusion, the book identifies some strategic considerations of relevance for advocates of a human rights-based approach in this context.

Theoretical Approaches to Higher Education

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Kotzmann
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Cultural Sensitivity ◽  
Higher Education Policy ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Human Rights Norms ◽  
Human Rights Based Approach

This chapter explores two general theoretical models that are used to frame higher education policy. Under the market-based approach to higher education teaching and learning, higher education is provided through the free market. This approach is based on the principles of competition, privitisation, and absence of government intervention. In contrast, a human rights-based approach to higher education seeks to translate the human right to higher education and operationalise it. The principles of a human rights-based approach include integration and mainstreaming of human rights norms, accountability, non-discrimination and equality, participation, dignity, interdependence and indivisibility, and cultural sensitivity. The chapter evaluates the theoretical effectiveness of these two models.

Practical Approaches to Higher Education

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Kotzmann
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United States ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
The United States ◽  
Education Systems ◽  
Higher Education Systems ◽  
Human Rights Based Approach

This chapter explores the real-life operation of six higher education systems that align with the theoretical models identified in Chapter 2. Three states follow a largely market-based approach: Chile, England, and the United States. Three states follow a largely human rights-based approach: Finland, Iceland, and Sweden. The chapter describes each system in terms of how it aligns with the particular model before evaluating the system in relation to the signs and measures of successful higher education systems identified in Chapter 3. This chapter provides conclusions as to the relative likelihood of each approach facilitating the achievement of higher education teaching and learning purposes.

scholarly journals Public deliberation as a teaching andragogy: Implications for adult student learning from a doctoral higher education policy course

2013 ◽  
pp. 95-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Johnson ◽  
Margaret Partlo ◽  
Tammy Hullender ◽  
Emmanuel Akanwa ◽  
Heather Burke ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Higher Education Policy ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Public Deliberation ◽  
Adult Student ◽  
Student Agency ◽  
Taking Action

Public deliberation provides an inclusive and robust mechanism for making shared decisions in community and political settings; however, its application to teaching and learning remains underutilized (McMillan & Harriger, 2007). This manuscript reports on a case study of the use of public deliberation as a teaching andragogy in a graduate level course in higher education policy, which showed that public deliberation creates greater ownership of the course, fosters critical thinking and student agency, and implicates taking action.

scholarly journals A summary of the National Forum’s Review of the Existing Higher Education Policy Landscape for Digital Teaching and Learning in Ireland

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tony Murphy ◽  
Terry Maguire
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Higher Education Policy ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Flexible Learning ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities

This summary outlines the findings that emerged from the National Forum’s project on higher education policy and the challenges and opportunities posed for teaching and learning by digital technology. The project sought to define whether existing policies were enabling and reflected the language of digital teaching and learning. The summary discusses the findings within the wider context of a national and international drive toward utilising digital technology to facilitate a more flexible learning environment.

scholarly journals Critical reflections on staff-student partnership and ‘re-interpreting’ journal submissions

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-108
Author(s):  
Lorna Mary Cork
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Higher Education Policy ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Digital Literacies ◽  
Teaching Excellence ◽  
Scholarly Community ◽  
Personal Reflections ◽  
Student Reflections ◽  
Diverse Groups

This thoughtpiece shares some personal reflections on a distinctively different approach to student-staff collaboration, whereby students ‘re-interpret’ scholarly submissions to this new HE journal for a wider audience. Student and staff motivations for becoming involved in this work of partnering are examined, and values and ‘intrigue’ are uncovered as contributing to partnership-readiness and sustaining interest. Students engaged critically with Higher Education policy and theory; particularly the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) and the concept of a ladder of partnership. The collaboration offers different conceptual lenses, revealing possibilities for the co-creation of a student-staff scholarly community. Student reflections reveal digital literacies for producing re-interpretations and the ‘softer’ skills for collaborating in diverse groups.  However, the key appeal of getting involved is not, as may be assumed, for benefits such as employability, it is the opportunity of collaborating across disciplines and as an equal partner with staff,  where their voices contribute to real debates about teaching and learning in HE.

The right to housing

2020 ◽  
pp. 209-222
Author(s):  
Dessie Donnelly ◽  
Joe Finnerty ◽  
Cathal O’Connell
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Human Right ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Group Participation ◽  
Cultural Rights ◽  
Housing Rights ◽  
International Human ◽  
The Right ◽  
Human Rights Based Approach

This chapter describes the human rights-based approach to housing and analyses it from a critical social policy perspective. The first section outlines the importance of housing as a human right, the second explores the distinctiveness of housing and a third section provides a case study of a community advocacy group, Participation and the Practice of Rights (PPR), using international human rights instruments such as the UN International Covenant for Economic Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) to promote housing rights. Finally, the prospects and limits of a human rights-based approach to housing are discussed.

Evaluating Higher Education Policy and Legislation

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Kotzmann
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Education System ◽  
Higher Education Policy ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
State System ◽  
Social Efficiency ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
System P

This chapter establishes a framework for evaluating higher education policy in relation to teaching and learning. It identifies the proper purposes of higher education, which include furthering individual transformation, improving society, and contributing to social efficiency. In this context, it is contended that social mobility is not a valid purpose of higher education. The chapter then identifies signs that indicate that the teaching and learning within a higher education system is meeting these purposes. These signs are categorized according to the identified purposes of higher education. Finally, the chapter outlines a methodology for measuring these signs within a given state system.

scholarly journals Coercive isomorphism in higher education: Direct pressures from the state to the Turkish universities

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inci Ozturk
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Liberal Education ◽  
Higher Education Policy ◽  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
Education Policies ◽  
Legal Entity ◽  
Higher Education Policies ◽  
Rare Situation

The universities maintain their continuity with the pressure of complying with the policies of the state and global policies. This study addresses the coercive pressure of the higher education policies of the state on the Turkish universities. The elective classes of Occupational Knowledge and Area Training to be taught at the universities may be opened when they are approved by the Higher Education Council (Yuksekogretim Kurulu, YOK) which is an institution having a public legal entity. On the other hand, the ability of the universities to determine the elective class of Liberal Education indicates a rare situation where the universities exercise their autonomy.Keywords: Isomorphism; coercive isomorphism; higher education policy, higher education, university 

scholarly journals Political and Cultural Rights in Higher Education Institutes

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
pp. 16-19
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Quality Education ◽  
Cultural Rights ◽  
Educational Rights ◽  
Politics In Education ◽  
Pros And Cons ◽  
Human Rights Based Approach ◽  
Right To Dignity

The goal of a human rights-based approach to education is simple that is to assure every child a quality education that respects and help promotes her or his right to dignity and optimum development. However due to the involvement of politics in education for once own greed, and to gain power, has made this right to look down upon. Many recent incidents and cases have shown the pros and cons of the involvement of politics in Education and its effect on the life of students, and their future. Therefore, achieving this goal is, however, enormously more complex. As we all know education is the most powerful tool of mankind. And for students to educate properly and along with getting to learn new things, to grow properly some rights should be provided to them. These rights may be cultural or political and these can be direct or in direct. So in this article we have concentrated on the educational rights of students and then how they face different kinds of difficulties in educational institutes’ .we have discussed corruption and reservation in institutes then we have described about recent events related to political and cultural rights of students in educational institutes. This research paper deals all the above said points proven and it has drawn arguments and counter arguments as well.

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